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Sa for Remi to cover his back and Oliver to re to one side of the threshold, he listened aa sound

Two steps in he saw the shop’s office had been ransacked A desk chair was turned over, the drawers opened, and file cabinets ee, where a late-model blue BMW was parked, driver?

?s door ajar Other than that, the car looked relatively untouched Not so the rolling tool chest, with all its drawers opened; sa one wall

The place, however, was e for so aside so they could see

“Oh no” Oliver stood in the doorway, shaking his head “He’s not—”

“Here,” Sam finished for him

“Thank goodness,” he replied

“You don’t happen to knohat car he drives?”

It took a moment for Oliver to draw his attention from the ransacked office “Sorry?”

“Car?”

“Oh, right When he drove out to Payton Manor, he was in a yellow Renault But he also drives a lorry for the cars”

Saoing to take a look and see if the car is parked anywhere nearby”

He walked around to the front, then back through the alley The flatbed tow truck was there, but the car wasn’t “What about this carriage house you said he uses?”

Oliver’s expression brightened “Of course he’d be there Why didn’t I think of that?”

He led the in front of a driveway that led to a garage behind a two-story house, both half-tih-peaked thatched roofs “Chad’s aunt lives here,” he said “She doesn’t drive, so lets hie house”